{"id":741473,"date":"2026-07-03T19:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/741473\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T19:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:55:09","slug":"moto-taxis-in-new-delhi-india-sport-signs-celebrating-u-s-birthday-state-of-the-world-from-npr-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/741473\/","title":{"rendered":"Moto-taxis in New Delhi, India sport signs celebrating U.S. birthday : State of the World from NPR : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783108509_966_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/5587x3725+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa4%2Ff3%2F03d7adcb40bcbf7668486c38e973%2F56d6e711-7e17-4f3c-9b34-e411c1bf0061.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                An auto-rickshaw displays a poster of U.S. President Donald Trump that celebrates &#8220;250 Years of America&#8221; on the back of vehicle in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, May 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                    Shonal Ganguly\/AP<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Shonal Ganguly\/AP<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, a long holiday weekend over the 4th of July celebrates America\u2019s 250th birthday.  Recently, NPR\u2019s correspondent in India found an unlikely place that same birthday is being marked.  On the back of three-wheeled motorbike taxis known as rickshaws in New Delhi.  We investigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An auto-rickshaw displays a poster of U.S. President Donald Trump that celebrates &#8220;250 Years of America&#8221; on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-741473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}